Quotes about Independence

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

A free people ought...to be armed.

A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.

Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.

Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe, and to utter freely according to conscience, above all other liberties.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive.

Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral, and subject to chance.